1. How can you possibly know what God wants you to do to get to Heaven? The Bible's no good - different translations, different interpretations. Suppose the scribes left out something like, 'Verily I say unto you, only he that bloweth his nose during the dark of the moon shall attain the Kingdom of Heaven.' One misplaced hooter honk and you're done.
2. What if God honours free inquiry and honest doubt more than belief based on tradition, a mistranslated tome, and fear? If that's the case, then Heaven must be cheek to jowl with nonbelievers.
3. Aren't you going to feel silly if the Hindus have got it right?
4. Let's assume that there is an atheist who allocates his time and spare financial resources helping the poor. He volunteers at the local homeless shelter, he provides free job training, the spends his Sundays helping out at the local children's burn ward. Are you honestly comfortable worshipping a God who would condemn such a person to an eternity of suffering for the act of honest disbelief?
5. How foolish are you going to feel if it turns out that there IS a Hell, but Blaise Pascal is the only one there?
Boru
2. What if God honours free inquiry and honest doubt more than belief based on tradition, a mistranslated tome, and fear? If that's the case, then Heaven must be cheek to jowl with nonbelievers.
3. Aren't you going to feel silly if the Hindus have got it right?
4. Let's assume that there is an atheist who allocates his time and spare financial resources helping the poor. He volunteers at the local homeless shelter, he provides free job training, the spends his Sundays helping out at the local children's burn ward. Are you honestly comfortable worshipping a God who would condemn such a person to an eternity of suffering for the act of honest disbelief?
5. How foolish are you going to feel if it turns out that there IS a Hell, but Blaise Pascal is the only one there?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
